For Me Who Still Don't Get it.

“What if all women were bigger and stronger than you? And thought they were smarter? What if women were the ones who started wars? What if too many of your friends had been raped by women wielding giant dildos and no K-Y Jelly? What if the state trooper who pulled you over on the New Jersey Turnpike was a woman and carried a gun? What if the ability to menstruate was the prerequisite for most high-paying jobs? What if your attractiveness to women depended on the size of your penis? What if every time women saw you they’d hoot and make jerking motions with their hands? What if women were always making jokes about how ugly penises are and how bad sperm tastes? What if you had to explain what’s wrong with your car to big sweaty women with greasy hands who stared at your crotch in a garage where you are surrounded by posters of naked men with hard-ons? What if men’s magazines featured cover photos of 14-year-old boys with socks tucked into the front of their jeans and articles like: “How to tell if your wife is unfaithful” or “What your doctor won’t tell you about your prostate” or “The truth about impotence”? What if the doctor who examined your prostate was a woman and called you “Honey”? What if you had to inhale your boss’ stale cigar breath as she insisted that sleeping with her was part of the job? What if you couldn’t get away because the company dress code required you wear shoes designed to keep you from running? And what if after all that women still wanted you to love them?”— Carol Diehl

 

Ponytail boy

I felt like this was something funny and relevant to the readings that I read. Not because this represents the male gender box or how a man is suppose to act and be but rather that because it does not fit into that a person who looks at this at first will assume that it is a female waving her pony tail back and forth which I feel says a lot about society and the underlying concepts that have been said about the male gender box and how engraved it is in our brains that we automatically assume that this would be a female instead of male. This world always expects men to behave a certain way or do certain things and if they do not then they are labeled feminine terms as an offense  now what does that say about our society and the way women are viewed?